Faculty
John Potter
Instructor
John Potter, OD, MA is
Vice President for Patient Services with TLC Vision Corporation where he has
been an active dispute resolution and conflict management practitioner for more
than 6 years. Dr. Potter received his Doctor of Optometry from Indiana
University, and his Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution from Southern Methodist
University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, and a
Distinguished Clinical Scholar at the State University of New York’s State
College of Optometry. Dr. Potter has written over 60 peer-reviewed publications
and more than 200 editorials, and has been the recipient of the William Ezell
Award for scientific writing from the Southern Council of Optometrists. He
twice won the Spurgeon Eure Award for excellence in clinical research from the
American Optometric Foundation, and was the 1994 recipient of the Vision Service
Award from the Heart of America Contact Lens Society. Dr. Potter was the first
editor of the Journal of Optometric Education, the sixth editor of the Journal
of the American Optometric Association, and now serves as a Contributing Editor
to the Review of Optometry. He also is a member of the Editorial Board of
Primary Care Optometry News. Dr. Potter has been quoted in Readers Digest, the
Wall Street Journal, and the Asian Wall Street Journal, as well as other
national and international publications.
